Socialist Faction of Bukhara

The Socialist Faction was an informal grouping of socialist politicians in the Emirate of Bukhara that was active from 1860 to 1920. The Socialists of Bukhara were affiliated with the Mensheviks after the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party's split at the 1903 party congress, and the Socialists supported the Russian Revolution of 1917. However, the Socialists would become rivals with the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, and the faction was torn apart by internal differences. In 1920, following the Soviet conquest of Bukkhara, members of the Socialist Faction either joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or joined anti-Soviet socialist circles.